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February 17, 2010, Wednesday
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A FRENCH judge has issued an arrest warrant for American rider Floyd Landis for suspected hacking into an anti-doping laboratory computer, French anti-doping agency head Pierre Bordry said on Monday.
Bordry said the judge Thomas Cassuto believed Landis, whose 2006 Tour de France title was stripped after he failed a dope test, wanted to prove the laboratory where his samples were tested was wrong.
Landis denied the charges in an email to the Los Angeles Times. He also said he had not been contacted about the warrant. "No attempt has been made to formally contact me," Landis was quoted as saying by the newspaper on its Website.
"It appears to be another case of fabricated evidence by a French lab which is still upset a United States citizen believed he should have the right to face his accusers and defend himself."
Bordy, the president of the French anti-doping agency, said it was an international warrant but a court spokeswoman made clear the warrant only covers French territory.
"French judge Cassuto from the Tribunal de Grande Instance of Nanterre informed us that he had issued an international arrest warrant on January 28 against Floyd Landis, who tested positive for banned testosterone during the 2006 Tour de France, after our laboratory computer system was hacked," Bordry said. "He was summoned by the judge, he didn't come so he's now under an international arrest warrant."
A Nanterre court spokeswoman later said: "This document is called a simple arrest warrant. It only applies to French territory."
The French anti-doping agency launched legal action against unnamed persons after it found its laboratory computer system had been hacked into in September 2006.
Landis, the first rider to be stripped of a Tour victory, has continually denied any wrongdoing but the Court of Arbitration for Sport has rejected his assertion that his positive test was due to procedural mistakes by the laboratory.
Bordry said the judge Thomas Cassuto believed Landis, whose 2006 Tour de France title was stripped after he failed a dope test, wanted to prove the laboratory where his samples were tested was wrong.
Landis denied the charges in an email to the Los Angeles Times. He also said he had not been contacted about the warrant. "No attempt has been made to formally contact me," Landis was quoted as saying by the newspaper on its Website.
"It appears to be another case of fabricated evidence by a French lab which is still upset a United States citizen believed he should have the right to face his accusers and defend himself."
Bordy, the president of the French anti-doping agency, said it was an international warrant but a court spokeswoman made clear the warrant only covers French territory.
"French judge Cassuto from the Tribunal de Grande Instance of Nanterre informed us that he had issued an international arrest warrant on January 28 against Floyd Landis, who tested positive for banned testosterone during the 2006 Tour de France, after our laboratory computer system was hacked," Bordry said. "He was summoned by the judge, he didn't come so he's now under an international arrest warrant."
A Nanterre court spokeswoman later said: "This document is called a simple arrest warrant. It only applies to French territory."
The French anti-doping agency launched legal action against unnamed persons after it found its laboratory computer system had been hacked into in September 2006.
Landis, the first rider to be stripped of a Tour victory, has continually denied any wrongdoing but the Court of Arbitration for Sport has rejected his assertion that his positive test was due to procedural mistakes by the laboratory.
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